A masked man stormed a secondary school in Emsdetten, near the Dutch border, yesterday wearing explosives and wielding rifles. He injured at least 11 people before killing himself. Police said the man was an 18-year-old former pupil of the school. "He was a loner who was severely unhappy with his life," state prosecutor Wolfgang Schweer said. German television quoted from a suicide note, reportedly published on one of the attacker's two websites, in which he said: "This revenge will be carried out so brutally and ruthlessly that it will chill you to the bone."Jess Smee in Berlin

Kidnapping fear as BBC journalist goes missing

A BBC journalist went missing yesterday after visiting the Pakistani capital, and his brother fears intelligence agents have kidnapped him. Dilawar Khan Wazir, who works for the Urdu language service, disappeared after leaving for his home city of Dera Ismail Khan, in North-West Frontier Province, bordering Afghanistan. His brother, Zulfikar Ali, said a man claiming to be a doctor phoned him saying Mr Wazir had been injured. A number of men later arrived asking Mr Ali to come to the hospital, but he was suspicious. Interior ministry officials were not available for comment. Associated Press in Islamabad

Ahmadinejad rails at west in meeting with Mugabe

Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe opened a united front yesterday in a move they hailed as a counterweight to US and British global domination. At the start of a visit to Tehran by Mr Mugabe ostensibly intended to boost economic ties, Mr Ahmadinejad told a press conference that Iran and Zimbabwe were linked by a shared antipathy to "leaders of the world arrogance". He added: "We do not accept America's and Britain's hegemony over the world and we have good cooperation with each other in terms of removing this hegemonic system."Robert Tait in Tehran